Marlon Wheatley

Marlon Wheatley was a Continental Army cavalry general during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Marlon Wheatley was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a Congregationalist family of English Pilgrim stock. He joined the Continental Army when the American Revolutionary War broke out, offering his services as a cavalryman. He was made colonel of a regiment of horsemen who served in Nathanael Greene's army during the Maine theatre of the war, and, in 1776, Greene dispatched him and his army's two cavalry regiments to put a stop to British-aligned Native American and loyalist raids. Wheatley distinguished himself at the Battle of Caribou, after which he was promoted to general in his own right. He further proved his gallantry by leading the attack on Fort Nashwaak, Nova Scotia, occupying the city.